Who was Jezebel in the Bible?
The Bible is as honest about the lives of its heroes as it is about those who rejected God. Some Bible characters found out what God can do with failures when they turned to Him. Many, however, neither admitted their failures or turned to God.
Jezebel ranks as the most evil woman in the Bible. The Bible even uses her name as an example of people who completely reject God (Revelation 2:20, 21). Many pagan woman married into Israel without acknowledging the God their husbands worshipped. They brought their religions with them. But of all the woman, no one was as determined as Jezebel to make all of Israel worship her gods. To the prophet Elijah, she seemed to have succeeded. He felt he was the only one still faithful to God until God told him that there were still 7,000 who had not turned from the faith. Jezebel’s one outstanding “success” was in contributing to the cause and eventual downfall of the northern kingdom idolatry. God punished the northern tribes by having them carried off into captivity.
Jezebel held great power. She not only managed her husband, Ahab, but she also had 850 assorted pagan priests under her control. She was committed to her gods and to getting what she wanted. She believe that the king had the right to possess anything he wanted. When Naboth refused to sell Ahab his vineyard, Jezebel ruthlessly had Naboth killed and took over ownership of his land. Jezebel’s plan to wipe out all worship of God in Israel led to very painful consequences. Before she died, Jezebel suffered the loss of her husband in combat and her son at the hand of Jehu, who took the throne by force. She died in the defiant and scornful way she lived.
When comparing Jezebel and Elijah, we have to admire each one’s strengths of commitment. The big difference was to whom they were committed. Jezebel was committed to herself and her false gods, while Elijha was totally committed to the one true God. In the end God proved Elijah right.
Where is your commitment? Is it with God or is it with someone else? Do you know God? Do you know Jesus?
Are you certain that you are going to heaven? If the answer is no or your not really sure and there is something stirring inside you at this very moment to do this, then all you have to do is say a small prayer and you can be assured of your name being added to the Book of Life. Go to the prayer of salvation and pray the words out loud and believe in your heart and you will be saved.
Jezebel’s story is told in 1 Kings 16:31 – 2 Kings 9:37. Her name is used as a synonym for great evil in Revelation 2:20
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